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I thought playing an angel would be very good for my image.

Shirley MacLaine

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Shirley MacLaine
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: April 24
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In terms of my life, I guess I want to share whatever I've learned really, which is basically one thing: know yourself, look for yourself, know what to look for, cherish it, be honest, be authentic, even if it hurts your feelings. That's not bad.
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You know, I think I had my first past life recall when I was 7.
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I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. From that moment my life changed.
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My first few weeks in New York were an initiation into the kingdom of guts.
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I'm an expert in hookers. I'm an expert in doormats. I'm an expert in victims. They were the best parts. And when I woke up--sociologically, politically, and creatively--I could no longer take those parts and look in the mirror.
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You think you have a handle on God, the Universe, and the Great White Light until you go home for Thanksgiving. In an hour, you realize how far you've got to go and who is the real turkey.
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An actor has many lives and many people within him. I know there are lots of people inside me. No one ever said I'm dull.
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God bless that potential that we all have for making anything possible if we think we deserve it. I deserve this.
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I think in the end we all know that our best friend is ourselves. We are born alone and we die alone. That's the journey.
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I'm not sure I'll come back to this planet. I may come back to another one.
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When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.
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The pickings are pretty slim when you have to play the part of a housewife who doesn't go out of her apartment because she's afraid she's going to get mugged, or a woman who turns into her brother, who is a murderer.
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Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.
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I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.
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The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into.
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Women love working together. That's my experience anyway.
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Usually I'm right, by the way - so never mind all the other.
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On things she had to pack before leaving her home in advance of a forest fire, 1996. Childhood pictures and pictures of my life. Do you know how many pictures that is? Not just this life I have pictures from 13,000 lives.
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When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.
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On the stage you try to act real. On the screen you try to be real.
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